Licensing occupations Ensuring quality or restricting competition?

Morris Kleiner has produced the most thorough evaluation of the effects of occupational licensing in years, perhaps ever. In a rational world, this book would provoke interest by policymakers and the public in reconsidering where occupational licensing is beneficial for society, and where it is bene...

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Main Author Kleiner, Morris M
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Kalamazoo, Mich W. E. Upjohn Inst. for Employment Research 2006
W.E. Upjohn Institute
W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Edition1
SeriesBooks from Upjohn Press
Subjects
Arbeitsmarkt
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Berufsausbildung
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Competition
Economic Policy
guilds
Labor
labor markets
Licenses
licensing
occupational licensing
Occupations
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Professions
Public Policy
Qualifikation
Quality assurance
Qualitätssicherung
unions
United States
Vereinigte Staaten
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Summary:Morris Kleiner has produced the most thorough evaluation of the effects of occupational licensing in years, perhaps ever. In a rational world, this book would provoke interest by policymakers and the public in reconsidering where occupational licensing is beneficial for society, and where it is beneficial for those lucky enough to be granted licenses but not for society as a whole. –Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University
ISBN:0880992859
9780880992848
0880992840
9780880992855